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The comic book version of "The Boys" ran for 72 issues, but as issue numbering can often be, this is misleading. Writer Garth Ennis also penned three six-issue "The Boys" mini-series that are essential parts of the story: "Herogasm," "Highland Laddie," and "Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker." Counting these and the 2020 epilogue mini-series "Dear Becky," "The Boys" is really 98 issues.

When "The Boys" was collected as trade paperbacks, these miniseries were included as if they were part of the series' main run.

"Herogasm" is a business as usual arc of the Boys infiltrating a Supe orgy. ("Herogasm" later became one of the best episodes of the "Boys" TV series.) "Highland Laddie," meanwhile, is about Hughie taking a break from Supe-hunting and going back to Scotland, whereas "Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker" finally fills in the backstory of antihero Billy Butcher.

Called back to England for his abusive father's funeral, Butcher remembers his life story.

The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs

They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his leading man, Clint Eastwood, and his other actors.

Now previously unpublished photographs show him doing just that, acting out particular scenes.

In 1975, George Kennedy starred in an unusual revenge thriller in which AI was used to catch the bad guys. A look back at The ‘Human’ Factor:

Revenge films and vigilantes were all over the place in the 1970s, whether it was Charles Bronson’s Paul Kersey gunning down crooks in Death Wish (1974) or Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle going on a rampage in Taxi Driver (1976). One of the more unusual thrillers of its type from the era, though, was The ‘Human’ Factor from 1975. For one thing, there’s its high-tech premise, in which George Kennedy’s protagonist uses cutting-edge technology to track down his enemies.

Kennedy plays John Kinsdale, a middle-aged, American computer expert stationed in Naples. Each day, he says goodbye to his picture-perfect Nuclear family – wife, two sons, a daughter with an outsized clown doll – and drives to his workplace at a nearby NATO base. There,...

Clint Eastwood's breakout role was, of course, the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's 1964 Western classic "A Fistful of Dollars." At the time the movie was released, 17-year-old bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger who had just started a competitive career in his native Austria, far from both Hollywood and Spain's Tabernas Desert where Leone's seminal Western was shot. But the movie, and specifically Eastwood's movie star magnetism, made a big impression on the young Schwarzenegger, who throughout the illustrious career that followed his early bodybuilding days has praised the Hollywood veteran as one of his idols. The "Terminator" star even modeled his post-Governator acting career on Eastwood, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2011:

"In the future I have to adapt my roles to my age. Clint Eastwood also has done it in the same way. Extreme fighting or shooting is not possible anymore. I want to be...

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In Stuart Galbraith IV's invaluable film biography "The Emperor and the Wolf" -- a detailed rundown of the collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune -- Kurosawa was asked about Sergio Leone's Western "A Fistful of Dollars." Kurosawa reportedly said that Leone's film was "a fine movie, but it's my movie." Leone, as cineastes all know, will be able to tell you, ripped off Kurosawa's 1961 film "Yojimbo," pretty much beat-for-beat, to make "A Fistful of Dollars." Toho, the production company that distributed "Yojimbo," sued Leone and the case was settled out of court.

"Yojimbo," for those unlucky enough not to have seen it, is about a nameless ronin (Mifune) who wanders into a remote 1860s village to discover a vicious gang battle raging. It seems two groups of yakuza are fighting over the gambling rights in this town,...

Getting your first big break in Hollywood can be tricky; the journey to superstardom relies as much upon luck and the correct combination of circumstances as it does innate talent. Even someone like Clint Eastwood — whose impressively prolific career spans several decades and has molded him into a cultural icon — struggled to make a mark when he first set out to act. When Eastwood auditioned for the first time, he was rejected -- a likely occurrence for even the biggest stars today, as the perfect opportunities often boil down to the right connections and a performance suited to the role. After Eastwood dealt with a string of unsuccessful auditions in 1954, he scored a minor, uncredited role in Jack Arnold's "Revenge of the Creature," and went on to star in similar parts that mostly amounted to brief appearances with little to no dialogue.

In an attempt to diversify his career,...

In the early 1960s, an Italian auteur, inspired by a Japanese legend, cast an American star in what would become one of the greatest Westerns of all time. As Clint Eastwood put it, the film about a Mexican gang war was “an Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese film in the plains of Spain.”

Clint Eastwood on the set of Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy [Credit: United Artists]

Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars was a layered narrative in terms of production and behind-the-scenes development. As a story, it was quite simply a Western that redefined Westerns for generations to come. However, for Clint Eastwood, the Dollars trilogy was the stepping stone to a 70-year-long career in Hollywood that was more illustrious and enduring than any other actor originating from the Golden Era of the film industry.

The Legacy of Clint Eastwood’s Dollars Trilogy Clint Eastwood as...

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The year was 1963, and Clint Eastwood was tired of playing a Western hero. As Rowdy Yates on CBS' "Rawhide," he was stuck in a flavorless rut of white-hat derring-do, herding cattle and being an altogether swell guy while contending with stock genre villains. There was a future in this, yes, but it would require Eastwood to play the same note over and over until he became a lasso-wielding self-parody.

So, when he wrapped his fifth season of "Rawhide," he accepted an offer to make a big screen Western with a promising Italian director in Spain. That film was "A Fistful of Dollars," and all it did was launch the "Spaghetti Western" trend, which, along with the revisionist American works of Sam Peckinpah, extended the popularity of the genre for a solid decade.

"A Fistful of Dollars" was not, on the surface,...

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60 years ago this September, Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name stepped on screen for the first time in Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars." It would be a few more years until the low-budget Spaghetti Western made it to America, but the actor's star power and the director's talents were instantly recognizable for early adopters – even if critics took longer to get on board. By the time Leone had released two more Eastwood-led films, rounding out what became known as the Dollars Trilogy, Eastwood's narrowed eyes and steely attitude had become a fundamental image of the movie cowboy.

The Dollars trilogy, which continued with "For A Few Dollars More" and concluded in 1966 with "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," is now celebrated as one of the best on-screen Western sagas of all time. The genre would...

2025 will officially mark Clint Eastwood's 70th year in the film industry. That's just five years short of the average life expectancy for American men, so you could absolutely call that a magnificent run even if all he ever did was play baddies and barkeeps since the Eisenhower administration. Of course, Eastwood has done a tad more than that. In collaboration with filmmakers Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Eastwood played a major role in reconfiguring, respectively, the Western and crime genres. He's also won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director twice (for "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby"), and, at the age of 94, will release his latest directorial effort, "Juror #2," this November.

Eastwood's been so successful for so long that it's difficult to accept that he ever truly struggled. But 94 years is a long damn time, and film stardom didn't arrive for this big-screen icon until he was in his 30s.

Clint Eastwood's Hollywood career officially began in 1955 when he made a brief, uncredited appearance as a lab technician in Jack Arnold's "Revenge of the Creature." Nine years later, unhappy as a midlevel television star on the CBS Western series "Rawhide," he jetted off to Spain to make a different kind of Western with a very different kind of director named Sergio Leone. The result, "A Fistful of Dollars," changed the face of the genre forever, and set Eastwood down the path to becoming a filmmaker in his own right.

Eastwood's directing career got off to a curiously assured start with the wildly suspenseful thriller "Play Misty for Me," in which the tough, swaggering star of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Dirty Harry" played a victimized Bay Area disc jockey. No one expected this from Eastwood, and it's fair to say no one saw this hugely...

It is borderline impossible to define the six-decade-long artistic legacy that Clint Eastwood had painstakingly mapped, as his stacked filmography includes everything from certified classics to overlooked gems. Of course, no artist can have an impeccably perfect run, but some, like Eastwood, inch very close to that ideal by re-defining entire genres that will always have a place in cinematic history. Not every good film that Eastwood helmed or starred in made a ton of money at the box office, but artistic success cannot be solely measured via such narrow metrics, as his name is embedded into the public consciousness, for better or worse.

It is tempting to dissect Eastwood's artistry purely through the Western genre — works like "A Fistful of Dollars" or "The Outlaw Josey Wales" capture his contributions succinctly — but there is much more to him than a drawling accent or laidback gunslinging. The actor has often been...

Netflix’s Rebel Ridge seems to have won audiences over with its visceral action and amazing performances from lead actors Aaron Pierre and Don Johnson. Pierre seems to have won over critics and fans alike with his restrained work as a former Marine officer entering a new town, where corruption is rampant.

The actor’s performance seems to have propelled him to a new level of stardom. Pierre’s work in Rebel Ridge may just have made him a top contender for many upcoming action flicks, including a remake of A Fistful of Dollars. The remake of the classic that put Clint Eastwood on the map is currently in development.

Rebel Ridge Star Aaron Pierre May Be The Perfect Candidate For Clint Eastwood’s A Fistful of Dollars Remake Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond in Rebel Ridge | Credits: Netflix

In many ways, Netflix’s Rebel Ridge is a Western. A...

Now who doesn’t know Clint Eastwood, an actor and director who pretty much revolutionized the face of Hollywood with his acting and directing talent. A one-of-a-kind star, it wasn’t until he was cast in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars that he received the much-needed break that would enable him to become an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.

Clint Eastwood | Credits: Gran Torino / Warner Bros Pictures

One of the most iconic collaborations in the history of films, A Fistful of Dollars, not only put Eastwood on the map but also revolutionized the Western genre and the era of ‘Spaghetti Westerns’. However, the film wouldn’t probably have made it so far if hadn’t been for the brilliance of Eastwood, who was a compromise ‘cast’ after Leone failed to sign his first choice.

Sergio Leone on Casting Clint Eastwood in His Breakthrough Role Clint Eastwood in a...

Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure might have become famous worldwide for a lot of things, but the one aspect that made it relatable to the audience in a big way was its inclusion of pop culture references in almost every series. These pop culture references were based on prominent movies, actors, characters, etc., and they were portrayed through the different characters from the series.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders | Credit: David Production

One actor who had a lot of influence on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure was Clint Eastwood, known for many iconic movies like A Fistful of Dollars, Gran Torino, Dirty Harry, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, etc. Eastwood’s major impact was seen on the character Jotaro Kujo, who first appears in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

Araki once got a chance to talk to Eastwood about his influence on the series and how he helped him...

Clint Eastwood’s always been known for his unapologetic attitude, both on and off the screen. And when it comes to his Dirty Harry movies, he’s not about to change that. Critics may have taken issue with the ethical implications of the films, but Eastwood seems to have shrugged it all off with his signature coolness. Instead of getting bogged down in debates about morality, Eastwood focuses on what he does best: delivering gritty, pulse-pounding entertainment.

Clint Eastwood’s Harry throws away his police badge | Credits: Warner Bros.

So, while some may question the ethics behind Dirty Harry, Eastwood’s response is pretty clear—he’s here to make movies, not moral lessons. In the end, it’s this unflinching approach that keeps audiences coming back for more, decade after decade.

Clint Eastwood’s Rebel Spirit: How Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz Defied Critics and Defined His Legacy...

Clint Eastwood’s rise to global stardom wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. Before becoming the icon he is renowned as today, the actor’s initial days in showbiz saw him working as a contract actor for Universal, which didn’t last long, as he was eventually fired for his Adam’s apple, which Universal claimed stuck out too far.

Clint Eastwood in a still from A Fistful of Dollars | Credit: United Artists

But the setback didn’t hold his career back for too long as he’d soon land his breakout role and later headlined the iconic Dollars trilogy. However, his success outside Hollywood did little to garner him roles when he returned.

Clint Eastwood’s Success Overseas Didn’t Get the Ball Rolling in Hollywood

After rising to prominence following his stint in the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide, which he wasn’t particularly fond of, the actor then...

Studiocanal announces a stunning brand-new 4K restoration of the thrilling and unique western Red Sun as part of the Cult Classics Collection available on 4K Uhd Steelbook, Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital from 9th September to celebrate we are giving away a Steel Book edition!

Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, Red Sun is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870. When outlaw Link (Charles Bronson) is betrayed by his gang during a train robbery, he is forced by the Japanese Ambassador to help regain a priceless sword stolen by Link’s double-crossing partner Gauche (Alain Delon).

Link and the Ambassador’s bodyguard, Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), travel the West in pursuit of Gauche, attempting to lure him out by taking his girlfriend (Ursula Andress) as hostage. Although Kuroda plans to kill Gauche straight away, Link needs him alive to find the loot from their last robbery.

Despite being packed full of cameos, "Deadpool & Wolverine" included some guest appearances that you might have missed. For instance, star Ryan Reynolds' wife, Blake Lively, voiced Lady Deadpool, one of the many Deadpool variants who arrive towards the end of the movie and try to take out Wade Wilson and Logan (Hugh Jackman). But Lady Deadpool remains fully covered by her spandex suit and face mask throughout, making this one of the less overt guest spots in a movie that turned cameos themselves into an art form.

Similarly, Matthew McConaughey voices yet another Deadpool variant, Cowboypool, who also remains hidden behind a face mask throughout the scene in question. As it happens, this was simultaneously one of the more exciting and most anticlimactic cameos in the movie. Fans have been waiting for some time for McConaughey to make his Marvel debut, and a few lines in a "Deadpool" movie...

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is arguably one of the best directors currently working in Hollywood, with a phenomenal critical and commercial record. He recently appeared on a podcast, where Tarantino discussed all things cinema, especially the movies he has come to love over the years. In the process, Tarantino also revealed the only film trilogy he considers perfect.

Quentin Tarantino discussed his favorite movie trilogies (Credit: Club Random podcast | YouTube).

During the podcast, Tarantino shared his admiration for the Toy Story movies but admitted that there was one trilogy he loved more. The Academy Award-winning director named Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy as the only one he deems perfect. In the process, Tarantino praised one genre that critics have often seen dismissively, and here is what he had to say.

Quentin Tarantino Reveals the Only Film Trilogy That Blew Him Away

Quentin Tarantino is yet to formally confirm his next directorial...

Quentin Tarantino thinks “Toy Story 3” is one of the greatest movies ever, which is why he refuses to watch 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” During an interview on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, the Oscar winner suggested that “Toy Story” could’ve been one of the great film trilogies had the animated franchise not continued with a fourth film. A fifth “Toy Story” is now on the way.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'”

“It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do,” he continued. “The first movie is terrific, but...

Well, it seems like Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited 10th and final film will not be a “Toy Story” installment.

The director said during Bill Maher’s YouTube (video) podcast “Club Random” that the original “Toy Story” trilogy is one of the greatest trio of films of all time. According to Tarantino, the franchise overextended with the fourth installment. Well, he’s gonna hate this news: a fifth “Toy Story” was announced earlier this year with original director Andrew Stanton returning to the chair. “Toy Story 5” will center on children who become obsessed with technology; it is slated for a June 19, 2026 release.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino told Maher in the below video. “In the case of ‘Toy Story,’ the third one is just magnificent. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.

When it comes to the greatest film trilogies ever, there are a few that scholars would place near the top: Kieslowski’s Colors, Ray’s Apu series, Leone’s The Man with No Name Trilogy…while a case could be made for everything from Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy to Linklater’s Before films to Back to the Future. And if it wasn’t for Toy Story 4, the first three Pixar movies would absolutely be in the conversation. Now that they have been bumped to quadrilogy status (and beyond), that removes them from consideration – unless, like Quentin Tarantino, you completely ignore the fourth Toy Story.

Appearing on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, Quentin Tarantino suggested that Toy Story had one of the greatest trilogy finales ever, only blowing it by forcing a fourth movie. “In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just magnificent. It...

Quentin Tarantino doesn’t want to play with Toy Story anymore.

The famed director recently appeared on an episode of the comedy podcast Club Random with Bill Maher, where, among other things, he discussed the difficulties of wrapping up a trilogy in a satisfying manner for the audience. Because of his love for the initial Toy Story trilogy, the Kill Bill helmer said he had “no desire” to view subsequent films.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the Toy Story trilogy,” he said in a clip that has since gone viral on X (formerly known as Twitter). “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

He went on to describe that...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of September titles. The Tubi September 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

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Matt Damon has worked in several legendary films which have been helmed by acclaimed directors. Being an Oscar-winning screenwriter himself, Damon has chosen films that have often been regarded as modern-day classics such as the Jason Bourne franchise, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Saving Private Ryan.

He worked with acclaimed director and veteran Clint Eastwood on the film Invictus, where he witnessed his efficient and unorthodox working style firsthand. The actor mentioned that Eastwood was able to make the films he wanted without going over budget or schedule by having an efficient and loyal crew who would give their lives for him.

Matt Damon Noticed How Clint Eastwood Pulled Great Loyalty From His Crew Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars | Credits: United Artists

Apart from being an icon with the Spaghetti Western Dollars trilogy, Clint Eastwood has also directed many modern-day classics. He won his first Oscar as director for the Western Unforgiven,...

To mark its 35th birthday, Back To The Future Part II will be flying back into UK cinemas this coming October: more on the re-release here.

In the latest example of news stories to make a certain segment of our audience – er, including me – feel old, Back To The Future Part II is being lined up for a UK cinema re-release this October.

It’s going to be appearing on Monday 21st October 2024, to celebrate what’s being anointed as Back To The Future Day. And – yikes – it’s also to celebrate the fact that the movie is about to celebrate its 35th birthday.

35 years. We’re as far away from the film’s original release as Zulu, A Fistful Of Dollars and Dr Strangelove are in the opposite direction.

See also: Back To The Future Part II, and its initial backlash

Still, as someone who waited in a bloody...

“The Sporting Image” is the summer 2024 edition of the Notebook Insert, a seasonal supplement on moving-image culture.Illustration by Ivy Johnson.A writer needs a pen, a painter needs a brush. But a filmmaker...a filmmaker needs an army.—Orson WellesYou never miss the water until your well runs dry, and four years ago, it was one such bout of baseball deficiency that inspired my first attempt to wax poetic on the subject of America’s pastime. I had taken for granted that baseball blossoms every spring, and now I felt its absence acutely, one more emergency precaution amid the weltschmerz of that first pandemic season. Fans and players alike anxiously awaited an opening day that wasn’t certain to arrive. But in due time, Major League Baseball worked out the kinks, drafted its best attempt at safety protocols, and the show went on—as it must! So it was...

Juliette Lewis and Peter Dinklage hope to continue their respective career highs with the upcoming Western novel adaptation “The Thicket.”

Lewis, who reigned over 2022 TV with “Yellowjackets,” “Queer as Folk,” and “Welcome to Chippendales,” plays an assassin who is tracked by a bounty hunter, portrayed by Dinklage. The actor is next set to star in the buzzy musical film “Wicked” after a slew of recent film roles including “She Came to Me,” “Cyrano,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” and Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut “Unfrosted.”

The official synopsis for “The Thicket” reads: When fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Together they embark on a perilous quest to track down Cutthroat Bill that leads...

Movie buffs are debating whether the announcement of a remake of the iconic Western A Fistful of Dollars is a good idea. The 1964 original directed by Sergio Leone is credited with launching Clint Eastwood’s career and helping define the Spaghetti Western genre. With its iconic visuals and music, many think it’s a classic that shouldn’t be touched.

It’s becoming pretty common for Hollywood to redo older movies, but the results are mixed. Some remakes find new fans, while others fail because they can’t live up to the original. Studios seems to prefer rehashing old ideas instead of funding new stories.

A Fistful of Dollars in particular is praised for Leone’s unique storytelling style and the tense atmosphere he created. Plus, Ennio Morricone’s incredible score is just legendary. Leone’s “Dollar trilogy” of films is revered, so can any remake really compare?

The new...

Clint Eastwood has had a glorious movie career spanning various decades. In addition to being an accomplished actor, Eastwood is also a talented filmmaker who has made a diverse range of films that have won Oscars. At 94, he is still making films and refuses to slow down. The actor got his huge break with his collaboration with Sergio Leone in the Dollars trilogy.

Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | United Artists

Eastwood’s iconic role made him a household name and the trilogy was a major factor in reinvigorating the spaghetti Westerns. A new report now states that a remake of the first film in the trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, is in the works and fans are not happy about Hollywood trying to cash in by remaking yet another classic.

Hollywood Continues Its Frustrating Remake Trend With Clint’s Eastwood’s A Fistful of Dollars...

El clásico que propulsó la carrera de Clint Eastwood será reimaginado.

De acuerdo con Deadline, está en marcha un remake del clásico de Sergio Leone, “Por un Puñado de Dólares”, película precursora del spaghetti western y que también propulsó la carrera de Clint Eastwood y otros, como el compositor Ennio Morricone.

Todavía no se conocen detalles sobre la producción, el equipo, la fecha de inicio del rodaje ni el reparto.

“Por un Puñado de Dólares” es la historia de un pistolero errante sin nombre que se enfrenta a dos familias rivales en un pueblo desgarrado por la codicia, el orgullo y la venganza. Su enorme éxito dio lugar a otras dos películas de una trilogía icónica, conocida como la Trilogía del Dólar, compuesta por “Por un Puñado de Dólares” de 1964, “La Muerte Tenía un Precio” de 1965 y “El Bueno, el Feo y el Malo de 1966.

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Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" is not the greatest Spaghetti Western ever made, but it is widely considered to be the first. As the film that made Clint Eastwood an global movie star, it is inarguably the most significant. Most importantly in today's movie marketplace, people who've never seen a Spaghetti Western likely know the title, which makes it a viable candidate for a remake.

And this is fitting because "A Fistful of Dollars" is itself a remake. In fact, it was such a brazenly beat-for-beat copy of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai classic "Yojimbo" that U.S. distributors wouldn't release Leone's film until the filmmaker settled up with the Japanese master and his backers at Toho (Kurosawa wound up making more money off this deal than he did with "Yojimbo").

Of course, "Yojimbo" wasn't an original either. Kurosawa openly acknowledged that his film was inspired by Stuart Heisler...

In Hollywood nowadays, if you’re a classic film, it really is just a matter of time before the remake monster comes calling. Nothing is sacred. Not even one of the greatest Westerns of all time— “A Fistful of Dollars.”

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According to Deadline, the classic film, “A Fistful of Dollars,” is getting the remake treatment. The film follows the story of a mysterious gunslinger who comes to a town filled with greed, pride, and revenge.

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You’re not gonna believe this, but they’re remaking one of the most legendary Westerns of all time – A Fistful of Dollars! The 1964 film that made Clint Eastwood a star is getting updated for a new generation.

Some producers in Italy and England are teaming up to do a new version of the story. Sergio Leone’s original was so iconic that it basically invented the “spaghetti Western” genre. They’re saying they want to honor how great that original movie was.

This has certainly got people talking! Some think remaking such a classic is just asking for trouble. Eastwood’s performance is just untouchable. Plus, the 1960s era gives it a really cool vibe a remake might mess up.

On the other hand, Westerns have been super popular lately with shows like Yellowstone. And movies like Kevin Costner’s Horizon prove audiences still love the genre. So a...

A few years ago, we heard that a TV series adaptation of one of the greatest Westerns ever made, the 1964 Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood classic A Fistful of Dollars, was in the works at Mark Gordon Pictures. That project, which was described as a “contemporary retelling of the story,” has never made it into production – but it looks like we’re going to be getting a new version of A Fistful of Dollars nonetheless. Deadline reports that Euro Gang Entertainment, the company founded by producers Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horsman, is working with Enzo Sisti of Fpc and Jolly Film, which produced A Fistful of Dollars, to get a feature film remake off the ground.

Deadline notes, “It’s still early in the process so production details are under wraps for now. This would most likely be English-language but that hasn’t been confirmed by the team and a writer,...

Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood, is set for a remake now in development from Euro Gang Entertainment.

The classic film, directed by Leone in 1964, created the “spaghetti Western” and was itself a remake of Akira Korosawa’s 1961 film Yojimbo. The latest version will come from Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horseman’s Euro Gang Entertainment and Italian production partner, Enzo Sisti and Fpc S.r.l., and Rome-based Jolly Film, the film’s original producer and distributor.

Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, about a drifting and detached gunfighter who plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride and revenge, made Eastwood a star. A Fistful of Dollars was also the first of a trilogy that included For a Few Dollars More and The Good the Bad and the Ugly, films about the “man with no name” that starred Eastwood.

Fresh off IndieWire’s list of the 100 greatest Westerns, Sergio Leone’s classic Spaghetti Western “A Fistful of Dollars” is getting a remake.

The original 1964 feature, which starred Clint Eastwood as a nameless gunfighter, began a film trilogy that included “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good the Bad and the Ugly.” Now, “A Fistful of Dollars” is going to be reimagined by the producers behind “The Departed,” “300,” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

Euro Gang Entertainment, founded by Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horsman, will produce the “A Fistful of Dollars” remake, along with Italian producer Enzo Sisti of Fpc and Rome-based Jolly Film, which produced the original movie. The film is expected to be an English-language remake, but no details have been made public yet.

Euro Gang and Sisti recently collaborated on Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Peacock gladiator series “Those About to Die” starring Anthony Hopkins.

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Exclusive: Saddle up! One of the great westerns is getting a remake.

Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood classic A Fistful Of Dollars is set for a movie remake from Euro Gang Entertainment, the company founded by Hollywood vet Gianni Nunnari (300) and Simon Horsman (Magazine Dreams), alongside Italian production vet Enzo Sisti (Ripley) of Fpc, and Rome-based Jolly Film, which produced the original movie.

Hit western A Fistful of Dollars is the story of a wandering gunfighter with no name who plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

The film, released in the mid ’60s, helped launch the “spaghetti western” genre and Eastwood’s career (and others including that of composer Ennio Morricone). Its huge success spawned two more films in an iconic trilogy also comprising For a Few Dollars More and The Good the Bad and the Ugly, all starring Eastwood.

Amazon Prime Video is the place to go for movies this month, with a plethora of original films as well as new library additions for just about every movie fan. The Emma Roberts-led original Space Cadet hits the streaming service aptly on the Fourth of July, for anyone looking for a fish-out-of-water style comedy. My Spy the Eternal City, the newest film in the Dave Bautista-led family action series also drops on July 18.

Action film fans are also in for a treat with recent films The Beekeeper and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning coming to Prime Video in July.

As far as TV shows go, the most notable addition this month is the adult animated series Sausage Party: Foodtopia, a continuation of the 2016 film Sausage Party.

Here’s everything coming to Prime Video and Freevee in July – Amazon originals are designated with an asterisk.

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This July, beat the heat with the latest additions at Prime Video and Freevee!

It’s a light month for original series, films, and specials as we head into the summer lull, but there is still plenty to watch throughout the month: over 140 classic films between the two Amazon streamers will be added this month, from horrors such as the genre-changing “The Silence Of The Lambs” and last year’s newest “Evil Dead” franchise installment “Evil Dead Rise,” the first five films of the “Rocky” franchise, and comedies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Animal House,” “13 Going On 30,” and much, much more.

But after the majority of the film load drops on July 1, don’t forget to head back to the services’ additions throughout the month, including Season 2 of the critically acclaimed “Troppo,” the new “Legally Blonde“-like comedy “Space Cadet,” and a new documentary from award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter,...

Mild spoilers ahead for the first four episodes of "Star Wars: The Acolyte".

Akira Kurosawa's work has been a cornerstone of "Star Wars" since the very beginning. George Lucas's original synopsis for "Star Wars" was, in large part, just the synopsis of Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" with the Japanese names crossed out and the science fiction names of "Star Wars" filled in. The story evolved from there, adding in more swashbuckling and "Flash Gordon" influences. Throw in some "Thx-1138" and "American Graffiti" and you get a world that only George Lucas could have blended up. 

From that point forward, Kurosawa has been a major influence on virtually all of the "Star Wars" movies and TV shows. In press events leading up to its release, Lawrence Kasdan cited Kurosawa's "High and Low" as a key reference to "The Force Awakens." Director Rian Johnson clearly loved "Rashomon" and pulled its...

Clint Eastwood retired from the Western genre with the most epic Western film in cinematic history, Unforgiven. It won the Best Picture Oscar and the Best Director Oscar for Eastwood. In his final Western outing, Eastwood deconstructed some of the outdated myths that were popular in Westerns including John Wayne films. Not only did he create the greatest Western movie, he also inspired other filmmakers in the genre with this film.

Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven | Malpaso Productions

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan has reiterated how the 1992 film served as an influence for him to enter the Western genre. Eastwood also admired the creator’s vision in his Western dramas, even allowing to use Unforgiven‘s theme music in a Yellowstone Season 1 episode.

Clint Eastwood Deviated From The Usual Myths To Create The Greatest Western Film

Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood in a still from Unforgiven (1992) | Malpaso Productions

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When Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni were writing the screenplay for their 1954 epic "Seven Samurai," they couldn't have predicted its lasting influence on cinema. Not only did Kurosawa's masterful direction alter and revolutionize the way action sequences would be shot, but the premise became a reliable and lasting template that multiple other filmmakers would employ in the ensuing decades. For those unlucky enough to have never seen "Seven Samurai," the setup is simple: a remote farming village is regularly looted by passing bandits, leaving them destitute. Unable to withstand another attack, the villagers gather up their modest means and hire seven rogue samurai to protect them. The samurai know that the job won't pay, but each one has their own reasons for joining the cause. Using their cunning and limited means, the samurai repel the bandit attack.

Most recently, the "Seven Samurai" premise was transposed onto Zack Snyder's "Rebel Moon.

Clint Eastwood was already 30 years old when he landed his breakout role in the CBS Western "Rawhide." The actor had spent much of the 1950s getting by on bit parts in B movies (most notably the Jack Arnold monster duo of "Revenge of the Creature" and "Tarantula"), and guest roles on TV series like "Maverick" and "Death Valley Days," so you'd think he would've been thrilled. But Eastwood was displeased with his character Rowdy Yates, who, early on in the series' run, was a wet-behind-the-ears ramrod. At his age, he was eager to play a grown, capable man with enough years behind him to allow for a bit of mystery.

Eastwood's restlessness coincided with a shift in filmmakers' approach to the Western genre. Though maestros like John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, and Budd Boetticher had allowed for moral ambiguity in their movies, the vast majority of Westerns were white...

The best things come in threes, especially stories. In Western nations, we like a three-act structure in which we set a status quo, watch our heroes fall, and then see them return to greatness. Some of these stories cannot be held within a single movie. For those epics, those monumental narratives, the movie trilogy was born. Trilogies represent some of the best that cinema has to offer, movies that changed the culture and the art form. The trilogy might vary in quality from film to film, but together these three films tell a story that cannot be ignored.

Before we get too far, let’s lay out our criteria. The trilogies chosen here are those intended to be a trilogy, either from the outset or by the end of the third film. Thus we’re including things such as the Toy Story and Indiana Jones trilogies, even though those continued on with further entries.

One of Hollywood's most frustrating recent news stories is that Francis Ford Coppola is having trouble finding distribution for his self-funded passion project, "Megalopolis" (via The Hollywood Reporter). In a just world, making "The Godfather" would grant Coppola a lifetime blank check, but that has never been the world we've lived in.

What you may not be aware of is one of Coppola's influences for his magnum opus. Like his friend "Star Wars" director George Lucas, Coppola looked to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. While Lucas took after Kurosawa's Jidaigeki (historical) films, Coppola looked to one of the director's contemporary-set films: "The Bad Sleep Well."

Released in 1960 and starring his go-to leading man Toshiro Mifune, the movie is one of Kurosawa's (comparatively) more obscure ones. It was especially overshadowed by "High and Low," the masterful kidnapping thriller that Kurosawa and Mifune released in 1963. Both movies are set in the world of...

How you situate Sergio Leone’s epic, acerbic A Fistful of Dynamite within the filmmaker’s larger body of work just might depend on which title it bears when you watch it. The original Italian title, Giù la testa, is probably best rendered by the thematically appropriate Keep Your Head Down, but Leone insisted the film go out under the looser translation Duck, You Sucker! It’s a line that recurs several times throughout the film, one that Leone insisted was authentic American slang of the era, though clearly it isn’t any such thing.

The replacement title A Fistful of Dynamite attempts to link it with Leone’s earlier A Fistful of Dollars, but this one gets far darker and more serious than the more “innocent” tales of adventure that form the Dollars trilogy. Probably the most appropriate title was the one applied to it by the French: Once Upon a Time…...

Cinematic language can be universal. Visual images and styles can be reused and interpreted for different audiences quite easily with film fans quick to pick up on the influences. Take for example the Western. John Ford influenced Akira Kurosawa; Kurosawa influenced Sergio Leone who in turn inspired a number of Italian filmmakers in creating the whole Spaghetti Western genre. This visual language then proceeded to be imported across the globe. “Yakuza Wolf” is one such beneficiary of this transnational use of cinematic language. A blending of Yakuza action with a western flourish it's now available through “Eureka Entertainment” on Blu-ray. With its lead Sonny Chiba being rediscovered we have an opportunity to look back at a role that set him on course for bigger stardom.

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Gosuke Himuro (Sonny Chiba) is out for revenge. His father is dead and his sister Kyoko (Yayoi Watanabe) kidnapped.

Yakuza Wolf 1: I Perform Murder is a 1970s Japanese action film staring Sonny Chiba as Gosuke Himuro. The film is a rip of of Django which is a rip off of A Fistful Of Dollars which is a rip off of Yojimbo which is a licensed remake of The Glass Key (1942). Seeking revenge for his murdered father and kidnapped sister, Gosuke Himuro pits two rival Yakuza factions against each other. The filmmakers steal from other films with abandon. If it's not nailed to a solid slab of copyright law, it's filched. This is your intellectual property? You must have drooped it somewhere.

Yakuza Wolf opens with Gosuke Himuro performing a black gloved giallo murder of a couple in coitus. It could have come straight out of Bava's Blood And Black Lace. The colour palette is Argento. Chiba wears...